Welcome to stratos.me
A blog where I write anything that comes to mind.Mibbit: Over and done with installed IM’s
Well for a couple of years now meebo has eliminated the need of MSN messenger, Yahoo messenger and all the IM's. It's all in one. One thing was missing though... IRC. I know nowadays people prefer instant messengers rather than the old school IRC but beleive me there...
L33tSig, a neat sig tool…
Crowling the web, i found a weird signature that a user had. It displayed memory usage, cpu usage and some other stats on his pc. I thought it was weird and it might have been a custom thingy he did and hosted. Soon i found l33tsig. This is a service where you...
HTTP Proxy for hardcores or… masochists!
It's been a while since i last posted on the "hardcores or masochists" series. This is due to lack of time since an article like this one requires 4-5 hours of research and coding. But here i am again with a simple one. You must have heard about a "proxy server". What...
Monitoring the temp of your debian box
The past few days the weather here in Greece is in a boiling temperature. As i was extracting an archive today i got this alerting message from the syslogd: Message from syslogd@lee at Fri Jun 20 17:26:17 2008 ... lee kernel: CPU0: Temperature above threshold Now as...
Ancient Argo came to life!
In Greek mythology there are millions of myths with heroes and quests. One of the most famous ones was the quest that Jason went through to get the Golden fleese. There was a special ship built for the voyage, from Argus, called Argo. It was a Trireme kind of ship. It...
Rescue your pc with Hiren’s bootable!
Have you ever faced a locked down XP that you cannot remember any password (not even admins)? Need to reset your password for your windows account? Have you ever had a pc that crashes for no reason and you have to figure out if it is the motherboard, ram or hard disk?...
Firefox 3.0 finaly out!
Well after a shaky day checking the site i finaly saw it. Firefox has been released a bit ago! So, help firefox by downloading within 24hrs. If you do so, your download will count towards the guiness world record firefox is aiming! It has been a weird day since there...
Sifnos pics 2006. God i miss it!
Well since the previous post "A nice sunset" had comments saying you guys want more, i am doing just that. Sifnos is an island located in the cyclads, Greece. It is a classical cyclad island with mountains and narrow roads. Ofcourse, magestic places and extra friendly...
A nice sunset…
Coming home from a very long day today (work and driving lessons) i saw tis beautifull sunset just outside my house. Sun was hiding behind the mountains leaving a very nice orangish sky. There are some pics on the gallery under the folder sunset here. Just felt like...
MagMyPic!
Now this is a pretty funny one i stumbled uppon on blogote.com. With this simple online service you can upload any picture of yours and it will put it into a magazine! It will realy look like a professional magazine. This is so funny, you can play pranks on friends,...